1911-02-18 PROPOSED NEW BATTLESHIPS

London Times, 18 February 1911, p. 5: THE RUSSIAN NAVY. PROPOSED NEW BATTLESHIPS. ST. PETERSBURG, FEB. 17.* The Council of Ministers will ask the Imperial Duma to vote a sum of 120,250,000 roubles (about £12,025,000) for the construction of four new battleships to be built between 1911 and 1915. The new ships will be called the Sebastopol, the Petropavlovsk, the Gangut, and the Poltava.

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